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Book Review of Diary

Diary
Diary
Author: Chuck Palahniuk
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
Book Type: Hardcover
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Diary takes the form of a "Coma Diary" kept by one Misty Tracy Wilmot as her husband lies senseless in a hospital after a suicide attempt. Once she was an art student dreaming of creativity and freedom; now after marrying Peter at school and being frought back to once quaint, now tourist-overrun Waytansea Island , she's been reduced to the condition of a resort-hohtel maid. Peter , it turns out, has been hiding rooms in houses he's rmodeled and scrawling vile messages all over the walls--an old habit of vuilders but dramatically overdone in Peter's case. Angry homeowners are suing left and right, and Misty's dreams of artistic greatness are in ashes. But then, as if possessed by the spirit of Maura Kinkaid, a fabled Waytansea artist of the nineteeth century, Misty begins painting again, compulsively. But can her newly discovered talent be part of a larger, darker plan" Of course it can.....